They say:
“Benjamin Frith … possesses a formidable talent
both musically and technically”
Gramophone
Saturday 13 September 2008 at 7:30pm at Moor Park School
THE FRITH PIANO QUARTET
Robert Heard, violin; Louise Williams, viola;
Richard Jenkinson, cello; Benjamin Frith, piano
Mozart: Piano Quartet in G minor, K478
Bridge: Phantasy Piano Quartet in F# minor
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
Single ticket: £13.50 (student/child £3.00) from (01584) 876141 or at
the door
This concert is presented in memory of Alan Turner
The Frith Piano Quartet
The Frith Piano Quartet was formed in 2000 by a group of like-minded
musicians who wanted to explore the piano quartet medium. The pianist
Benjamin Frith, violinist Robert Heard, violist Louise Williams and
‘cellist Richard Jenkinson who are both senior
members of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Since its
formation the group have performed the complete piano quartets of
Brahms, Dvorak, Fauré and Mozart but also take a keen interest in
performing gems that are not so often heard in the concert hall by the
likes of Frank Bridge, Arthur Bliss and Richard Strauss. The Quartet’s
activities have included concerts in many venues across the whole
country including a special relationship with the CBSO Centre,
Birmingham where they have just finished a project playing all three
Brahms Piano Quartets. Their programmes include the quartets written by
Bliss, Britten, Walton, Bridge and Bax to name but a few British
Composers.
Benjamin Frith
Benjamin Frith was born in South Yorkshire in 1957 and from the age of
ten studied with Fanny Waterman. He came to attention when at the age of
fourteen he won the National Concerto Competition. This was followed by
a Mozart Memorial Prize, the award for Young Concert Artists promoted by
the National Federation of Music Societies (1983) and joint top prize at
the Busoni International Piano Competition in Italy. His international
career expanded much further after the award of a Gold Medal at the 1989
Arthur Rubinstein piano Masters Competition in Israel, where he also
picked up the award for chamber music.
He has appeared with many of the finest orchestras including the Israel
Philharmonic, The Royal Philharmonic, The BBC Philharmonic,
Hallé, CBSO, BBC Scottish, London Mozart Players,
Berlin Symphony, and Singapore Philharmonic. He has won golden opinions
for his recordings of Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Weber and Arnold
and his cycle of John Field's Nocturnes and piano Concertos for Naxos
records. He appears at International Festivals such as Edinburgh,
Aldeburgh, Kfar-Blum and Kuhmo and every year at the Lindsay Quartet's
Chamber Music Festival.
